K8.09 tested and ready to run on Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Today’s announcement demonstrates that Kerridge Commercial Systems has fully tested and supports K8.09 on Oracle Exadata Database Machine. K8 is a fully integrated trading and financial system for distribution, merchant, wholesale/retail sectors. A class-leading system, it incorporates advanced and comprehensive functionality and has the capability to deliver an excellent range of benefits at both operational and management levels. Kerridge Commercial Systems is a Gold level member of Oracle Partner Network.

Oracle Exadata Ready is part of the Oracle Exastack Ready program, which allows partners, such as Kerridge Commercial Systems, to be recognised by Oracle for developing, testing and tuning their applications on the latest component products of Oracle Exadata Database Machine or Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud engineered systems. The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is the only database machine that provides extreme performance for both data warehousing and online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, making it the ideal platform for consolidating onto private clouds. It is a complete package of servers, storage, networking, and software that is massively scalable, secure, and Redundant.

The Oracle Exastack Ready program recognises Kerridge Commercial Systems as having applications that successfully use the capabilities of the latest Oracle technology to support their customers.

Ian Bendelow, Kerridge Commercial Systems CEO said, “To have achieved Oracle Exadata Ready status is a fantastic milestone for the company. Oracle Exadata Ready status gives all of our customers, particularly those who handle extremely large business volumes, the clearest reassurance that K8.09 is a world-class performing product.”

“When partners such as Kerridge Commercial Systems leverage the latest component products of Oracle Exadata Database Machine as the foundation for their applications, they benefit from a complete, integrated and cloud-ready infrastructure that will help them utilize new features and functionality and drive innovation,” said Chris Baker, Senior Vice President, Worldwide ISV and OEM Sales. “We are pleased to see Kerridge Commercial Systems achieve Oracle Exadata Ready status as this significant milestone helps equip them to deliver superior value to customers.”

About the Oracle Exastack Program

The Oracle Exastack Program helps enable Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and other members of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) to rapidly build and deliver faster, more reliable applications. Leveraging the Oracle Exastack Program, qualifying OPN members have access to Oracle performance experts and dedicated labs for testing and tuning their applications on Oracle Exadata Database Machine and Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud. Customers can be confident when selecting Oracle Exastack Optimized applications that they have been tested and tuned to achieve optimal performance, scalability and reliability. Also part of the program, Oracle Exastack Ready is dedicated to helping ISVs run their solutions on the latest major release of Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud and their component products, including Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux and Oracle VM. These products provide partners with a lower cost and high performance infrastructure for database and application workloads across on-premise and cloud based environments. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners/en/partner-with-oracle/differentiate-offerings/exastack-ready-optimized/index.html

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specialisations. Specialisations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more, visit http://www.oracle.com/partners/index.html

About Kerridge Commercial Systems

Kerridge Commercial Systems is a market leader in the development and provision of trading and financial software environments for specialist Distribution, Wholesale, Importing, Merchant and Retail industry sectors.

With over 35 years’ experience, Kerridge Commercial Systems, and its flagship product, K8, has the knowledge, expertise and proven track-record to fulfil customers' IT requirements, allowing them to focus on their core business issues.

From single- or multi-branch operations, through to 'point-of-sale' showrooms and warehouses; Kerridge Commercial Systems aims to provide a business solution geared, primarily, towards helping customers:

Increase profit potential

Improve efficiency

Reduce cost

Provide superior customer service

Gain visibility and control across their organisation

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